Marte Aas is a photographer and film maker. Aas´ main area of interest is the intersection between contemporary image culture, history, technology and landscape. Her work attempts to address underlying structures and gestures that form political and ideological narratives. The different subjects of interst visualizes in the form of films, photographs and installations, folding them into non-linear and layered narratives.
The starting point for her works is often a story present in contemporary or historical material, which is being processed through research into different formats and media, although strongly grounded in a photographic practice. Photography´s material aspects, the connection between the sign and the signifier and the representational value of photography is thus also investigated and processed in her art.
Aas is educated at The School of Photography at The University of Gothenburg and has had a number of exhibitions and screenings in Norway and abroad, her last major exhibition was It Cannot be Contained at Atelier Nord in Oslo in 2023. Aas has published several books and catalogues including Marte Aas – Photography and Film, 2010, Torshovtoppen, 2008, On the Subject of Body and Space, 2013 and Ducks in a Row, 2023 and is also one of the founding members of the publishing house Multipress.
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